[quote=@Louis Dabout]
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Remember Belgium the plucky state whose king bought a country ;) being regional doesn't mean you can't have colonies... nor does it mean that they have to be small.
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The thing is that historically the strip of coastline that my nation had is its newest acquisition, from something like 10 years ago when they annexed a tiny country.

They wouldn't have had much time to invade the Congo and loot it for rubber :P